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If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

Find out the difference between 18°C and 64.4°F.
Zero degree

Adam is 13 years old in 1980. In 1985 he is 8 years old. How?
The dates are in BC (Before Christ).

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.
$12,111.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

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